What idioms are there that are similar to "Picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelon"?

Because it is a small loss, it is not worth the loss, pursuing the end, putting triviality above importance, the loss of sheep.

1, penny wise and pound foolish? 【yīn Xiǎo shdà】?

Interpretation: For small interests, cause great losses.

Departure: Huang Qing Xiaopei's Twenty Years of Fan Huameng: "He just ignores it and only says that he is in a foreign country and can be fine. I don't know if I checked it, how can he know how to fight terrorism because of a small loss? "

Sentence-making: if you pay attention to the part but not to the overall situation, you will lose big because of small.

2. Is it not worth the loss? [déb cháng shé]?

Interpretation: Compensation: Worth it. The gain is outweighed by the loss.

Out: "The Biography of Western Qiang in the Later Han Dynasty": "Therefore, it is not rewarded; Get twice the result with half the effort. '

Sentence: In pursuit of fame and fortune, modern people often neglect their health, which is not worth the loss.

3. Give up everything? 【shbīn zhúmò】?

Interpretation: give up: give up; 11: Pursuit. Abandon the fundamental and the main, and pursue the secondary and the secondary. Metaphor does not grasp the fundamental link, but only works hard on side issues.

Out: "Lu Chunqiu Shang Nong": "People give up the basics and do nothing; If you don't order, you can't stay; Do not fight. People give up the basics and make a contract; Its labor contract is light migration; Light migration makes the country suffer; Have lofty aspirations; Without any intention. "

Sentence-making: writing an article only pursues the form and does not pay attention to the content, that is, giving up the root and chasing the end.

4. put triviality above importance? [püfáng zh]?

Interpretation: Broken belly hides pearls. Metaphor hurts the body, and the weight is reversed.

Out: Song Sima Guang's "Zi Tongzhi Jian Tang Taizong Zhenguan First Year": "I heard that Jia Hu of the Western Region had won the beautiful pearl, so he cut his body and hid it. What are they? "

Sentence: It is really undesirable that he risked his life for money.

5. Fighting for chickens and losing sheep? 【zhēng jīshyáng】?

Explanation: Metaphor is greed and loss.

Out: Han Jiao Yanshou's Lin Yi, Volume 8: "If the chicken loses the sheep, it will kill its golden sac."

Sentence: He always does something to win the prize.